Geometry and destiny

DOI10.1023/A:1026757718530MaRDI QIDQ1964549zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lawrence M. Krauss, Michael S. Turner

Publication date 20 February 2000

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904020

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantanisotropybackgroundcosmic microwaveopen Universe can recollapse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The recognition that the cosmological constant may be non-zero forces us to re-evaluate standard notions about the connection between geometry and the fate of our Universe. An open Universe can recollapse, and a closed Universe can expand forever. As a corollary, we point out that there is no set of cosmological observations we can perform that will unambiguously allow us to determine what the ultimate destiny of the Universe will be.

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